WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?

Updates on the silicon stories that do not go gently

{ga ming} Atari’s E.T. failure comes home

Then: The myth goes that Atari buried copies of the ultimate movie tie-in failure, E.T, oft blamed for the gaming industry crash of 1983, in the New Mexico desert. Now: Turns out they actually did – and an upcoming documentary by Zak Penn will show the excavation secrets.

{security} Avoiding a future Heartbleed

Then: The security bug in the internet’s OpenSSL left 17 per cent of the web’s secure server open to password and cookie theft. Now: A group set up by the Linux Foundation has raised $3m from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc, to fund OpenSSL maintenance.

{streaming} MOG’s unmetered streaming to end?

Then: Unmetered streaming provided by Telstra’s partnership with MOG was threatened when the company was purchased by Beats. Now: Apple’s acquisition of Beats has the unmetered streaming under threat once again.